ignore_transaction

For general information on how the Python agent API calls relate to each other, see the API guide.

newrelic.agent.ignore_transaction(flag=True)

Ignores the current transaction.

Description

This call ignores the current transaction. The agent does not report any data from the transaction.

You can also ignore a web transaction in the WSGI environ dictionary. To do so, set the newrelic.ignore_transaction key for the specific request in the WSGI environ dictionary passed by the WSGI server into your WSGI application.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

flag

boolean

Optional. Default is True. If the transaction is already ignored, you can un-ignore it by setting the flag to False.

Return value(s)

None.

Example(s)

Ignore a transaction

To ignore a transaction that you don't want to show up in the New Relic UI, you would run the following where a transaction is being generated in your app code. This example illustrates using the API to ignore a Flask route: